with a suspect here in bethlehem. the big story on "action news" is a bold crime spree that led to a police involved shooting and a police officer shot a man today after he allegedly crashed a stolen car robbed a man in a deli and carjacked a woman at gun point. trish mart man is live in the carjacking victim's neighborhood. >> reporter: we spoke with the victim of that first crime, the carjacking here on church road. she and her family were too shaken to go on camera but it all happened coming home from a christmas celebration good it was here in the 5200 block of church road in winfield that the suspect started his crime spree. the victim's mother tells us the family was coming home from a christmas party and the car was filled with christmas gifts and the diabetes medication and according to the victim the

suspect put a gun to her head and stole the chevy and took off. the surveillance video shows the suspect in the red coat holding someone at gun point in the store and left in the stolen chevy suv. and a short time later the officer spotted the vehicle on hazel avenue empty and when the suspect returned the police followed. >> another set of officers in plain clothes observed the vehicle and attempted to stop the vehicle. >> a plain clothes office approaching the vehicle and gave commands that the suspect did not follow. >> he made gestures to his waist band despite the orders and the officer did discharge the firearm striking the male one time in the chest. and the man was taken to the hospital in critical condition and the office will be placed on administrative duty pending

investigation. >> reporter: that officer's name is not yet released but he is a four year veteran of the 18th district and the suspect name is not released but plan to charge him with the carjacking and robbery. >> thank you. police say that a murder suspect took his own life after fiving more than 100 shots at this police standoff in bethlehem when the 36-year-old fatally shot his own 62-year-old mother mary louise moyer. and he fired on the first police officer on the scene narrowly missing him in the head and the officer and a neighbor took cover behind two different vehicles and hid there until the police deployed this armored vehicle called the bear cat to rescue both of them from the line of fire. and he kept firing at least 26

shots at the bullet proof vehicle >> after a nine hour standoff police say he committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. new video from chopper 6 hd shows the aftermath of a massive christmas day fire. it spread during last night's strong winds. and investigators say that the blaze caused a half million dollars on bay avenue in slaughter beach, delaware. two homes were destroyed and two others damaged and thankfully no other people were hurt. thick smoke was pouring from the byrning home this afternoon in abington township. flames were shooting from the upper floor when crews arrive the. and it's fire broke out at 230 and working for hours trying to get it under control. get ready for the deep freeze it feels frigid out there now and we are expecting temperatures to go even lower

and stay below for the next several days. adam joseph is in for cecily tynan with the latest from accuweather. >> it's cold and getting colder as we get into the seven-day forecast. >> get ready for brutally coal air for at least seven days. today the high was 33 degrees, 1 degree above freezing just before 3:00 this afternoon and savor the 33 because we are not anywhere near that as we push forward. the normal 42 degrees. we are already well below it today and tumbling well below it for the rest of the week into the upcoming weekend and 7 in buffalo and 17 in pittsburgh and 0 in binghamton and all the air in from canada you see where the core of this arctic air is. pickle lake 22 below zero and pickle lake 30 or more below zero around the hudson bay and all of this is coming straight out of canada and most of it at least is pushing in quiet

weather from canada, you see not much happening here on the satellite. and towards pittsburgh through the evening showers, slowly into the 20s between 7:00 and 8:00 and going to the mid-20s by 10:00 and 11:00 under partly cloudy skies and temperatures dropping to 20 and teens in the suburbs and the wins are up again tomorrow. 10 to 15 miles per hour. and for your wednesday start to finish, 7:00 to 7:00 the windchills stay in the teens even during the middle part of tomorrow afternoon. we'll chat about the cold temperatures, and a chance for snow over the weekend. all the details in just a little bit. >> thank you. keep tabs yourself at 6abc.com/weather. there you can always find the hourly and seven-day forecast to help you prepare for the brutal cold. when christmas in the rear view mirror people that travel ready heading back home now. people lined up at 30th street station and security line was

not too bad at philadelphia international airport an estimated 1.2 million people in the philadelphia area are expected to travel 50 miles or more coming back from christmas. it's a busy day for local retailers, the day after christmas is one of the most popular time to return unwanted gifts or exchange items that didn't fit. wendy saltzman is live now where they are shopping in their gift cards. >> reporter: monica the mall here is still packed with shoppers making a mad dash to return items that didn't fit and 40% of all holiday returns are expected to be made today and tomorrow and people saying so far so good at the cherry hill mall. >> the gifts are bringing shoppers back to the malls. >> one didn't work properly and one didn't fit and one was an expect duplicate. >> and shoppers make exchanges and returns, owners are outs for the bargains.

>> we come every year because there is good sales. >> some stores 70% or more. >> i buy christmas decorations and things that are 50% off or 70% off. >> at the gloucester premium outlet shoppers say that the day after christmas is the favorite shopping day of the year. >> this is our tradition and we go after christmas shopping and go hard during the after christmas sales. >> christmas decorations or clothes or whatever. whatever we can find. making returns that stores make exchanges go smoothly and people are working in the stores and it's easy and pulled us out of line. it's quick. >> the daytime rush is the busiest time and customers are advised to make the returns in the morning or late in the day and have return receipts ready and be prepared for a restocking fee of 15% at electronic stores. >> it has gone well, really well. just pack patience and it takes extra time and bring extra money

if there was something you wanted from your christmas list. >> they put the mark downs now. with the christmas gift cards and come down and grab everything. and if there say lot of things left over they want to get rid of it. that is the best time to buy it. >> and another way to avoid the long lines is to ship it to retailers offering free return shipping and another good idea is to check store policy and 15 days for returns or exchanges and others extend that into the new year and we post that on our website at 6abc.com. live at the cherry hill mall, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. coming up on "action news" tonight, a water main mess. the damage caused by a ruptured pipe in philadelphia and he first took the linc by storm and now we catch up with jimmy kelly, the singer known as the eagles good luck charm. when "action news" continues tonight. cancer is smart.

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a water main break made a mess at a commercial plaza and northeast philadelphia an 8 inch pipe broke at 7:00 a.m. at the 3100 block and sent water into stores as well as an islamic center where there were prayers under way. one man was lucky his car didn't end up in the hole. >> a few feet back. >> yes. oh my. the car would be done. it's too cold. you see the water is freezing right now. it's too cold. >> salt crews were called in to deal with the leaky water that was freezing on the streets. several streets were closed while the main was being repaired and took all day and

could take several more days to fix the damaged street. the search is on for an arm the bank robber that struck in chestnut hill on the german town avenue on december 23rd. he threatened the tellwer a gun and fled with cash and the suspect was dressed in a blue wind breaker and black bag with orange trim on the top and possibly a lunch bag or cooler. if you want to learn how local residents lived in the 18th isn't re now is your chance. the museum of the revolution is giving tours and try your hand as past times from tailoring to fencing and shoe making and more. the museum is open from 10:00 until 6:00 until the end of the week. some call him the eagles good luck charm. he won the love of fans when he

was just 10 years old and ducis rogers catches up with timmy kelly. >> he goes by tim now. the 40-year-old tenure greeted us at his home. what has not changed is his love for the eagles. >> the eagles organization is truly a family and humbled and honored to be part of that family. >> it started in 2003 when 10-year-old timmy kelly took the link by storm singing the national anthem. ♪ oh say can you see >> the little boy with the big voice. his back story remarkable. he had been a premature baby and lost his sight and was diagnosed with cerebral palsy but had a gift. his voice. >> many hearing him in the stands moved to tears, we asked

him why they thought that happened. >> people see someone like me with disabilities but able to go out on the field and sing, and in some ways focus on my ability. >> that ability that allowed him to sing for presidents. and boyer college of music this is the clip from the newly formed jazz ban's facebook page. >> he was called the eagles good luck charm and sung at the linc 20 times and 13 times he has won and the number on his jersey is number one fan. >> the prediction for the jersey. >> i'm totally optimistic we are going all the way. >> off to minneapolis? >> oh, yes. i think we'll win the super bowl. >> john rawlins, channel 6 "action news." >> we like the way you think tim. if you wonder how to get hands on tickets for the playoffs. have you to wait a little. the eagles organization is trying to determine which tickets are available and how

they will be sold. season ticket holders get first dibs and more details at some point next week.

ducis here and we are talking eagles, we love it and it was not perfect. >> it was not perfect again the raiders but it was a win. how should we feel about the eagles, that they are 13-2 or one of their worst offensive performances of the season? jaime apody has more. >> merry christmas philadelphia. last night the eagles guaranteed the road to the super bowl in the nfc must come through philly first. >> i'm jacked up because we put ourselves in a great position just do us and be the guys we know we can be. it's huge. >> we played well, great at the linc. talking about winning one home game everything has to go through the linc that is a good place to be. >> the eagles are 7-0 at home but yesterday they didn't look so good. personally nick foles who

struggled to find a rhythm with the receiver, and just one for 13 on third down and 59.4 passer rating. >> not clean those are the games you really analyze the film even harder because things didn't work out what would i have done next time if i see the conk. for doug peterson a big decision month make does he play foles and risk injuring him or rest him and risk the rust. >> very to give him the most reps as i can and be smart about it. we have more football left and our season is just beginning. >> the eagles have a first round by as well. if fole and others starters don't play that is two weeks of no action. >> you don't want to start fast and things we talk about all the time. it's just maintaining the edge. >> jaime apody, channel 6

"action news." decisions decisions. both the flyers and sixers are out of town and the flyers make a trip through florida and visit the panthers and the sixers head west to portland. and the sixers got a christmas gift a win over the knicks and jj reddick returns and scored 24 points and joel embiid a game time decision and he played and dropped in 25. and obviously the sixers are a better team with those guys on the floor. >> i love our guys, they fight. they fight. you bring in joe and j. j. and the fight goes to a higher level and gives us a chance. you know i'm the coach and fans see it and teammates see it and when you live it in real time it stands out that dramatically. >> and finally back to the nfl. we saw one of the best catches of the season yesterday. steelers and texans, houston

with the ball that is a touch down, he tips the ball to himself while fighting off a defender and makes the grab. your forecast ahead when we come back.

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breaking news in brookhaven delaware county. firefighters are on the scene of this condominium on fire on the 5200 block of hill stop drive. fire crews reported heavy braise blaze from the three story

building. an active huge fire they are fighting from land and the top area from the roof as they use their ladder trucks trying to evacuate this building and get this fire under control. good news so far no word of injuries. lets check the accuweather forecast. adam joseph is here to tell us it's getting really cold. >> yes, and sticking around for quite sometime. an extended stretch of arctic air now moving in. weather center one location that likes it is any particular resort. skiers and snowboarders they want to hear this because the snow guns are on and the slopes there and you know what? they can stay on day and night for more than seven days to make snow and may even see some natural snow to begin the week live on our spring mountain camera are. and a decent amount of folks braving the chill and the arctic air is coming through. and brutal windchills at times

in the next seven days and chance of light snow to begin the weekend as the coastal storm develops and we don't get whacked and we could get brushed by the system on saturday. 25 reading and lancaster and 29 in wilmington. basically below freezing everywhere, one location on the tip of cape may county sitting at 34 degrees. this is one pattern where the air temperatures are going to look cold. it's even colder factoring in the wind and checking out the windchill every single day. and right now 21 in philadelphia. 23 in allentown and 18 in reading and 24 in wilmington and cape may 34 degrees and it feels like 29 degrees. and satellite 6 along with action radar sheriff's officing it's quiet and clouds are breaking up and clouds roll through late tonight in philadelphia and down to the south where there could be a flurry within the clouds and overalmost of us partly cloudy and cold tonight and cold in the suburbs and 20 degrees for

sensteer with the northwest wind 5 to 5 miles per hour. and high pressure is to the west here for tomorrow. and that sends a wind out of the northwest it will be really cold when you factor in the wind tomorrow. 28 is the high temperature. and teens is how it feels the entire day. with the winds coming in off the lakes we don't have to worry about it but they deal with lake-effect snows here near eerie, over 50 inches of snow in two days because of the lake-effect snow machine on and by thursday high pressure gets high pressure so the winds relax a little bit but turns colder 26 degrees and then a clipper system comes across the great lakes late thursday into friday and bringing us clouds to round out the week and maybe a shower or flurry here on our friday. when we talk about the windchills and how it feels like tomorrow afternoon. 2:00, 13 philadelphia. and most of the country is in the deep freeze. as we speed up time to thursday afternoon still own feeling like

11 at 2:00 thursday afternoon for chicago 18 below and bismark, north dakota and friday much of the same feeling like 20 philadelphia and 7 cincinnati and memphis 25 degrees as the cold air continues to move in and the pattern gets stuck. as we take a look at the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast here. 20s from start to finish and 28 tomorrow partly sunny and cold. and 26 on thursday. windchills in the teens the next few days in the afternoon and a lot of clouds friday and maybe a flurry and snow looks like it will skirt in here tomorrow afternoon at 29. and doesn't look like a big system. we could see a few inches to begin the win and 24 to begin the year and monday going into the new year overnight lows in the single digits. >> my goodness. finally tonight patriots week in trenton kicked off with

song today. ♪ ♪ the first presbyterian church hosted the concert of song of the revolutionary era including ballads considered america's first composers and a colonial ball. "action news" continues at 10:00 on phl 17. and join us for "action news" at 11:00 here on channel 6. for adam joseph, cecily tynan, ducis rogers and jim gardner and the entire "action news" team. i'm monica malpass have a good night. we'll see you right here at 11:00. michael: i'm thankful that

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